| Issue #2- April 6, 2007 |
South O’ the Highway (and the North too)
Emmy Award-nominated actress Aida Turturro, famous for her role as Janice on the HBO series “The Sopranos,” attended the Montauk Friends of Erin cocktail party last Saturday at Gurney’s Inn. Aida will appear on the “American Dream Show” with Ingrid Lemme being filmed at Gurney’s Inn on April 11.
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Tony and Oscar Award-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl and
her husband, artist David Geiser, were on hand to applaud their son,
Jake, at the Third Annual Hayground School Creative Orchestra Concert.
Actor Roy Scheider and his wife, actress and director Brenda Siemer,
co-founders of the school, and their son, Christian, an alumnus of the
school, were there to watch Molly Scheider perform. Acclaimed composer
and conductor Bruce Wolosoff served as Artistic Director. The orchestra
performed 37 new compositions by students and teachers in the course
of the concert, the culmination of their work with Wolosoff.
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Southampton actor Bobby Abid is studying with Oscar-nominated actress
Shirley Knight of “Desperate Housewives” and her daughter,
Kaitlin Hopkins. Bobby is being considered to play Dr. Sandeep Kapoor,
Anna Nicole Smith’s handsome, young Indian doctor, in an upcoming
movie about her life.
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Tickets for the 2007 Comedy Club at Bay Street Theatre go on sale April
3 at 11 a.m. Jim Breuer, Voted one of Comedy Central’s “100
Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time,” kicks off the series on Monday,
June 25 at 8 p.m. Other comics in the series include Caroline Rhea,
host of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” Louis C.K., writer
and producer of The Chris Rock Show, Craig Shoemaker, named “Comedian
of the Year” by the American Comedy Awards, Lewis Black, a staple
on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and Zach Galifianakis
from TV’s “Boston Common.” For tickets, call the Bay
Street Theatre Box Office at 631-725-9500 or visit www.baystreet.org.
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Westhampton’s Ann Ligouri, author of A Passion for Golf: Celebrity
Musings About the Game, will be hosting The 10th Annual Ann Liguori
American Cancer Society Golf Classic on Monday, June 25, at Olde Vine
Golf Club in Riverhead. The VIP Outback Steakhouse dinner party will
be at Duckwalk Vineyards in Water Mill on Sunday, June 24. The second
edition of her book, which comes out in June, will feature interviews
with Brett Favre, Celine Dion, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson,
Yogi Berra, Sugar Ray Leonard, Pete Sampras, Amy Grant, Joe Pesci and
Kevin Costner. Ann was recently featured on the cover of Distinction
Magazine.
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Bruce Littlefield, who wrote the HarperCollins book Garage Sale America
in the Hamptons, will be on the “Today” show on May 26.
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New York State Supreme Court Judge Ed Burke is screening for the Southampton
Town Justice Seat. Ed spent seven years as Southampton Town Judge and
seven years in the Riverhead Supreme Court.
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Kevin Moley of Coram, the brother of Dan’s Papers Advertising
Sales Director Kathy Rae, was recently inducted into the New Jersey
Boxing Hall of Fame. Moley is famous for his ten-round fight against
Wilifred Benitez. The induction ceremony will take place on November
8 at the Venetian in Garfield, New Jersey.
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Dan’s Papers cartoonist and cover artist, Michael Paraskevas,
will be showing his most recent, large-scale Acrylic paintings at the
Hampton Road Gallery from April 5 until April 21. An opening reception
will be held on April 7 from six to eight p.m.
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Jeff Pennington, of Pennington Flowers on Hampton Road in Southampton,
has just been named one of the top six floral designers in New York,
and will be participating in the Macy’s Annual Flower Show in
Herald Square. The theme this year is Exotic Flowers. Designers will
share floral design knowledge along with demonstrations in two-day rotations.
Pennington is scheduled for April 11 and 12.
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Russell Simmons, Dr. Benjamin Chavis and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
(HSAN) decided not to participate in the press conference on April 2
that was held by Czar Entertainment and Jimmy Henchman’s mother,
Cynthia Reed. HSAN is impartial and will not take sides in this dispute.
Russell Simmons and Dr. Chavis hope the issues between Tony Yayo and
Jimmy Henchman and Czar Entertainment will be resolved peacefully and
as soon as possible.
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Congressman Tim Bishop and the East End Arts Council are inviting local
high school artists to submit their work to the 26th Annual Congressional
Art Competition. Artists’ work will be displayed at the Middle
County Public Library in Selden from April 13-29. One artist from each
congressional district will have his or her artwork displayed in a yearlong
exhibit at the United States Capitol and will receive three airline
tickets, courtesy of Southwest Airlines, to travel to the exhibition.
To enter, contact the East End Arts Council at 631-727-0900, or via
email at gallery@eastendarts.org.
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On April 9 and 23, local Hamptons weavers Pamela Topham and Jack Lenor
Larsen will be illustrating the connection between weavers and composers
at the Thalia Theatre Symphony Space in New York City. Composers Philip
Glass, Libby Larsen, Tobias Picker, Cornelius Dufallo, Kenji Bunch,
Judith Shatin, Laura Kaminsky and Victoria Bond will all be there. For
tickets, call 212-864-1414.
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Dan’s Papers They Made The Movie Here Film Festival kicks off
their second season this year with Blood and Sand, the 1922 classic
that established Rudolph Valentino as a star, on April 21 at the Westhampton
Beach Performing Arts Center. Admission and refreshments are complementary.
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As part of its “School Day Performances” series, the Westhampton
Beach Performing Arts Center presents Amelia Earhart: First Lady of
Flight, performed by the Seem-To-Be Players of Kansas on Tuesday, April
17 at 10:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. For more information or to request tickets,
call Cheryl Wheeler at 631-288-2350, ext. 102.
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On April 14, artist and architect John Diebboll will present his Art
of the Piano drawings at East End Books. The Art of the Piano is an
exhibition of artwork from his drawings of piano-playing celebrities
such as Hamptons piano-man Billy Joel, Marian McPartland and Thelonious
Monk.
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On Saturday, April 28, Windswept Hair Salon of Water Mill will sponsor
a benefit at The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, to raise funds to
help the Zingarelli family of Bridgehampton, who are facing exorbitant
medical expenses as they fight to save their daughter, Mia Bella Zingarelli,
who was born seven weeks ago with a rare, life-threatening metabolic
syndrome. For more information, please contact Diana Aceti at 631-255-9489,
or Windswept Hair Salon at 631-726-6410.
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The Garden Conservancy has announced the dates for their annual Open Days Garden Celebration. The Garden Tours will take place on April 28 in East Hampton and Wainscott, May 5 in Cutchogue, May 20 in Remsenburg, June 10 in St. James, June 23 in East Hampton, July 14 in Cutchogue, Mattituck, and Southold, and July 15 in East Hampton and Montauk. For more information, please call the Garden Conservancy at 888-842-2442 or visit www.opendaysprogram.org.
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